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Disney Origin Stories Will Give You Nightmares

It wasn't always happily ever after...

We all watched Disney movies as children but what we didn't know is that it wasn't always happily ever after.

In the Disney version of Peter Pan, for example, no one grows old. But in the original version, Peter Pan is the only one who stays young forever. If Pan felt like any of the Lost Boys were getting too old he would "thin them out" (murder them), according to a recent video from BuzzFeed.

Watch the video above, if you want to find out more about the terrifying origin stories of The Little Mermaid, Rapunzel, Pocahontas, Cinderella and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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